Introduction to course (syllabus, expectations, assessment tools)

Defining our terms.
What is Gender Studies?
What does Queer even mean?
Overview of the Sexual Revolution
Vito Russo*

Readings:

• “When Everyone Can Be Queer” (Wortham)
• “Queer and Then” (Warner)
• “Prologue: We” (Leo Bersani)
• Psychoanalysis & Gender 1 (Definitions/Terms)
• Psychoanalysis & Gender 2 (Definitions/Terms)
• From The History of Sexuality (Michel Foucault)
• Detailed Outline of The History of Sexuality